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A look at the major results on PokerStars this weekend.

Weekend highlights on PokerStars

kZhh of Hungary wins the Sunday Million and $176,000
Bolt from the blue
Negreanu misses out on seventh bracelet

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Sunday Million

It took kZhh a little more than an hour and a half to win the Sunday Million this weekend, collecting a first prize of more than $176,000. It’s not usually wrapped up so quickly, but kZhh, a TCOOP winner from earlier this year, used his chip lead well to batter his way through the final nine

Sunday Million ($215 NL Hold’em) results 11 June 2017
Entries: 5,879 (4,822 entries, 1,057 re-entries)
Prize pool: $1,273,600
Places paid: 953

1. kZhh (Hungary) $176,212.94
2. Keenyle (India) $121,949.27
3. nestoneto (Brazil) $84,398.57
4. frank29929 (Netherlands) $58,410.45
5. DavidAndIvy (Australia) $40,424.59
6. chubbybeast (United Kingdom) $27,976.98
7. Pokstarman (Germany) $19,362.25
8. Swaggersorus (United Kingdom) $13,400.23
9. OroJaNjivu (Netherlands) $9,274

Weekend winners

Among the winners this weekend were RBS14a who won both the Mini Sunday Million ($24,458) and the Saturday Spider 8-Max ($3,855). Also Adrienne “Talonchick” Rowsome of Team Online, who won the Saturday 8-Game for $1,581. Meanwhile you’ll find the top ten winners from the weekend below.

TOURNAMENT WINNER COUNTRY PRIZE MONEY
$215 SUNDAY MILLION kZhh Hungary $176,212.94
$215 Sunday Warm-Up Belqi Estonia $47,532.39
$1,050 Sunday Grand NLHE carpediem200 United Kingdom $39,642.06
$700 Super-Sized Sunday [Progressive KO] achen Canada $35,158.33
$11 Sunday Storm texx67 Norway $25,935.07
$215 Sunday Supersonic [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo] fr0zZy Russia $25,715.86
$1,050 Sunday Grand PLO [6-Max] Fresh_oO_D Germany $24,729.20
$22 Mini Sunday Million RBS14a Germany $24,458.82
$109 Sunday Cooldown [Turbo] UhhRooj Canada $20,519.83
$109 Sunday Kickoff mypokerf Russia $16,157.48

Find all the results for the weekend of June 10 to 11, 2017 on PokerStars, by clicking here.

Bolt

Dust off your Bolt jokes because this one came from out of the blue. Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world is joining PokerStars to bring poker to the masses, and maybe taking on Kevin Hart in the process.

usain_bolt_pokerstars-thumb_12Jun17.jpgWelcome Mr Bolt

Bolt announced the news on his Facebook page, and then we wrote up the story, which you can read here. Expect a lot of fun, and probably some medals along the way.

World Series

The World Series of Poker is in full swing over in Las Vegas and it’s already been a busy week for members of Team PokerStars, as we reported late last week.

Daniel Negrean_Abe Mosseri_2017 WSOP_12Jun17.jpgDaniel NEgreanu shakes hands with Abe Mosseri

Highlight of all of them was arguably Daniel Negreanu’s second place in the Omaha Hi-Lo 8-or-Better, falling at the last hurdle in what was an extended tournaments against Abe Mosseri. As Martin Harris wrote, Negreanu has added a lot of close calls in this first week of play. Surely that seventh bracelet win is not far off.


Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley. Don’t forget to follow the Blog on twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.

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